Debian 4.0: DSA-1480-1 Critical: Poppler Buffer Overflow Attack
debian
February 5, 2008
Alin Rad Pop discovered several buffer overflows in the Poppler PDF
library, which could allow the execution of arbitrary code if a
malformed PDF file is opened.
Topics Covered
Summary
The old stable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain poppler.
We recommend that you upgrade your poppler packages.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 484246 62ac8891f912e0297dee3bc875497ef7
Size/MD5 checksum: 749 d12234813b844d590e151f454c7f26fb
Size/MD5 checksum: 783752 2bb1c75aa3f9c42f0ba48b5492e6d32c
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 chec...
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